Modular software for flow cytometry and sorting: the LACEL system
Gary C. Salzman, Sean Wilkins, J. A. Whitfill · University of North Texas Digital Library (University of North Texas) · 1979
We present an overview of the software for a flexible data acquisition system for multiple flow cytometers. Together with the hardware, which is discussed in a companion paper, the LACEL (Los Alamos Cell Analysis) system provides the capability to acquire data on up to 8 parameters and control bidirectional sorting based on up to 4 parameters for each direction. The two major software modules include a user interface which accepts commands and displays frequency distributions, and a data acquisition module which communicates with the hardware, moves incoming data to mass storage and generates the frequency distributions for each data parameter.